Disk Quotas and Capacity Monitoring: VPS Basics
Per-user and per-filesystem disk quotas on Linux, plus a capacity monitoring loop with thresholds and alerting so no volume ever fills silently.
Hardware & Performance6 min read
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21 practical Hardware & Performance articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.
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TCP and Kernel Tuning for Latency-Sensitive Servers
Practical sysctl changes for high-traffic Linux servers, from socket buffers to queuing, that reduce latency without touching application code.
Hardware & Performance8 min read
Expanding LVM Logical Volumes Without Downtime
Grow a VPS volume group and an online ext4 or XFS logical volume with pvresize and lvextend -r, plus the caveats that make shrinking a different sport.
Hardware & Performance5 min read
Choosing the Right Instance Size for Your Application Workload
A practical method for sizing a VPS by measuring memory, CPU, and concurrent connections under real traffic, instead of guessing from the dashboard.
Hardware & Performance8 min read
RAID on a Single Server: Hardware vs Software Reality
What RAID really protects on a single node, why hardware RAID is mostly a platform-level rental, and when mdadm software RAID is worth it on a VPS.
Hardware & Performance6 min read
Server Filesystems Compared: ext4, XFS, btrfs, ZFS
An overview of ext4, XFS, btrfs, and ZFS for VPS workloads: maturity, snapshots, checksums, and where each filesystem clearly wins or costs you.
Hardware & Performance7 min read
RAM Planning: Spotting Memory Pressure Before the OOM Killer
Learn to read memory pressure on a VPS, distinguish reclaimable cache from real usage, and size your RAM well before the OOM killer ever acts.
Hardware & Performance7 min read
CPU Performance: Cores, vCPUs and When More Does Not Help
Understand how cores and vCPUs map to real throughput, and learn to recognize exactly when adding more vCPUs will not make your workload faster.
Hardware & Performance7 min read
Storage Tiers on a VPS: OS, Data, and Backup Placement
A practical split of OS, application data, and backups across SSD mounts, so one full disk can never take the whole virtual machine down.
Hardware & Performance6 min read